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Hymeneal Makkied.?On Thursday, October 8, 1908, at 10:30 a. m. at the Methodist parsonage by Rev James McDowell, Miss Olga Herrington, of Clarendon county, and Mr Thomas O Epps of Kingstree. TAMP PRFSSI FY RFftRfiAMZES Old Officers Re-Elected and Other Busines Transacted. The members of Camp Press^ ley met Saturday and re-organized. All the old officers were re-elected, viz: Commandant, H H Kinder; vice president, 1st W Flagler, 2nd F M Britton, 3rd TV D Fitch; chaplain, Rev E E Ervin, examining physician, W L Wallace, M D; members of pension board: H H Kinder, A W Flagler, II 0 Britton and G J Graham. Read S Marcus' ad this week See notice of County Teachers' association. Best line Case Goods in town aud prices right, at Wilkins'. Have you paid what you owe for the paper? If not, why not? Gale & Gale's new ad this week should interest the ladies 0 Miss Lucile Barr of Greenville is visiting Miss Lila Hammet. Dr G L Dickson of Manning was in Kingstree yesterday on onsiness. Mr R C McElveen of Hebron spent several hours in town yesterday. The Kingstree Dry Goods Co invite attention to their new advertisement. The office of the "Williamsburg Insurance and Bonding Co is in the Bank of Williamsburg. Get your tickets forthe Morphet and Stephenson entertainment to be given in the school auditorium Monday night. It's a y good show. ( The "Devil's Auction" com^ pany, booked for Monday night, coquetted the management of the opera house and the show > didn't come. Harmony Presbytery is still in session at the Presbyterian church. We expected to give a tull account of the proceedings this week but were disappointed in not getting the data that had been promised us. Please mail communications intended for the current week * A- ? 1 ?am ??n O tT o f in lime iu rravii us xucsuay u.t ^noon at latest, or they will have to be omitted. We cannot, get up all the type for the paper in one day. Death notices are published tree. Obituaries are charged for at the rate .of one cent a word. Poetry and extracts from the hymn book cost one cent a . word. By heeding this cur friends would save us a lot of unnecessary trouble. Mutual Oiclik*. Brahms and Tschaikowsky, the famous musicians, met but twice. On the last occasion Brahms was nfficiently interested in Tschaikowsky's fifth symphony to travel expressly to Hamburg in order to make its acquaintance. After the performance the distinguished com,?ceers dined together, and the contentious Brahms frankly admitted that he did not like the work at all, whereupon the usually meek Bussian plucked up sufficient courSe to inform his ho6t that the dis:e of each other's music was mutual. They parted on excellent terms nevertheless. An Introduction. "Long introductions when a man has a speech to make are a bore," Heaid former Senator John C. SpoonHPer. "I have had all kinds, but the most satisfactory one in my career I was that of a German mayor of a f email town in my 6tate, Wisconsin. I was to make a political address, and the opera house was crowded. When it came time to begin the mayor got up. 'Mine friends/ he said, 1 haf asked been to introduce Senator Spooner, who is to make a speech, yes. Veil, I haf dit so, und he yill now do so/ " iir " ' x ' W WASHINGTON IRVING. He Was an Utter Failure as mm After Dinner Speaker. Washington Irving was not a ready after dinner speaker. The author of "American Bookmen" says that he shunned public appearances. Yet when Dickens came to New York in 1S-12 Irving could not escape presiding at the great dinner in his honor. They had already become friends through correspondence, for lrvings delight in Little Nell had to be expressed in a letter to the author, and Dickens, in his enthusiastic response, had said: i/lVUlilU ivuiv.n<;iuvt.i\ci i I have worn to death in my pocket, and yet I should show you his mutilated carcass with a joy beyond xpression." The night of the public dinner came, and Irving's dread of the introductory speech kept him murmuring throughout the repast, "I shall certainly break down." At the proper time he rose to his feet, began bravely, but could utter only a few sentences, and ended by talcing refuge in the announcement of the toast: "Charles Dickens, the guest of the nation." The applause was generous, and Irving took his seat. "There," he said, "I told you I should break down, and I have done it!" Later, while on his way to Madrid, he found himself called upon at the dinner of the literary fund in London to respond to the toast, "Washington Irving and American literature." All he could say in acknowledgment of an enthusiastic j reception was: 4-/% vaii nir vnrr cm. x ncg IV Ii-iu.u wu "V -v.. cerc thanks." One Englishman at the table was heard to make the laconic comment, "Brief!" "Yes," said another beside him, "but you can tell the gentleman in the very tone of his voice." Painfully Polite. The people of Dresden are very, polite, so very polite that they not infrequently bring down ridicule upon themselves. It used to be told in that city that a stranger was one day crossing the great bridge that spans the Elbe and asked a native to direct him to a certain church ; which he wished to find. "Keallv, my dear sir," said the Dresdener, bowing low, "I grieve greatly to say it, but I cannot tell you." The stranger passed on, a little surprised at this voluble answer to a simple question. He had proceed i ? i * v i ? i - V - eel but a snort distance wnen ne heard hurried footsteps behind him and, turning round, saw the same man running to catch up with him. In a moment his pursuer was by his side, his breath nearly gone, but enough left to 6ay hurriedly: "My dear sir, you asked me how you could find the church, and it pained me to have to say that I did not know. Just now I met my brother, but I grieve to say that he did not know either." Rapidly Americanized. An Englishman temporarily living in Boston took his small son to the top of Banker Hill and prepared to give him the British version of_the historic fight at that point. His story, however, remained untold, the following question and answer alone being exchanged between the loyal subject of the British crown and his youthful offspring, who had been a resident of tnis country less than six months: "Now, my son, do you know what event took place a hundred years ago where we are now standing?" asked the fond parent. 'You bet I do!" was the prompt reply. "This is where we licked the 6tuffin' out of the English!"?Boston Post. Secret of "Ntrvout Balance." The secret of mental health and nervous balance is to be found in obedience to a few rules. Here they are: 1. Cultivate sound, health creating emotions?love, joy, peace, faith and hope. 2. Allow yourself sufficient time in which to do your work. 3. Hold in reserve a surplus tore of nervous energy by keeping within the limits of your organization, says Bev. Samuel McComb in Harper's Bazar. 4. Do one thing at a time. 5. Prepare yourself in good season for sleep. 6. Trust in the infinite goodness of God, who loves every creature he has made. Whoat Fields Follow Civilization. From the Atlantic coast the progress of grain production has advanced westward with settlement until it now has reached the bank3 of the North Saskatchewan river and the foothills of the Rocky mountains. In the days of our fathers the Richelieu valley was the great wheat field. It bore forty crops in succession.?Calgary (Canada) Albertan. INSISTED ON JUSTICE. tome One Had to Suffer to Satisfy the Judge's Conscience. As a burglar was trying to break into a house of a citizen of an oriental city the framework of the second story window to which he clung gave way, and he fell and broke his leg. Limping before the iustiee the next daw be indignantly 0 ? ' ^ demanded that the owner of the house be punished. "You shall have justice," said the judge. The owner. being summoned, claimed that the accident was due to the poor woodwork and that the carpenter, not he, was to blame. "That sounds reasonable," said the judge. "Let the carpenter be called." The carpenter admitted that the window was defective. "But how could I do better," said he, "when the mason work was out of plumb?" "To be sure," replied the judge, and he sent for the mason. The mason could not deny that the coping was crooked. He explained t -it while lib was placing ! it in posit nhis attention was distracted frm.^is work bv a pretty girl in a blue in.ic who passed on the other side o nhe street. "TIT--**^ homeless," said the judge, and trie girl was sent for. "I admit," said she, "that I am pretty, but that's not my fault, and if the blue tunic attracted the mason's attention the dyer, not I, is responsible." "That's good logic," said the I juupit". VIJ^ U ? tl W vuttvu. The dyer came and pleaded guilty. "Take the wretch," Raid the judge to the thief, "and hang hira from his own doorpost." The people applauded this wise sentence and hurried of! to carry it out. Soon they returned and reported that the dyer was too tall to be hung from his doorpost. "Find a short dyer and hang hira instead," said the judge, with a vawn. "Let justice be done at anv cost." His Bright Idea. Fat was digging a ditch. On the first day of tlie job he dug and dug, but made small progress. He went back next morning only to find that what he had done the day before was entirely wiped out by a cave-in. Then a brilliant idea occurred to Pat. Half burying his pick and shovel in the earth, leaving only the ends sticking out, he carefully threw his coat and dinner pail over the edge of the cave-in and then hid. In a short time people came along, took in the situation at a glance, jumped at the conclusion that the laborer had been caught in the fall of the bank and went to work hastily, trying to uncover his bodv. Half an hour later three sweating and puzzled men 6tood by the nearly completed ditch and wondered where the buried man was. Then Pat came out from liis .retirement and 6aid: "Thank ye, gentlemen. I knowed you'd bite on that." Ready With the Answer. Miss Baxter, feeling the effects of a torrid afternoon in June, was attempting to arouse the interest of her languid class by giving, as she supposed, an interesting talk on i the obelisk. After speaking for | half an hour she fouDd that her efforts were wasted. Feeling utterly ( provoked, she cried: "Every word that I have 6aid you have let in at one ear and out of the other. You" ?pointing to a girl whom 6he noticed had been particularly inattentive throughout the entire lesson? "tell me, what i6 an obelisk ?" The pupil, grasping the teacher's last words,, rose and promptly answered : "An obelisk is something that goes in one ear and out the other." ?Success Magazine. His Dwp Concern. The kind old lady noticed a small lad entering a cobbler's with a small package. "What have you there, sonny?" she asked kindly. "Ma's slipper," replied the lad. "You see, there is a tack out of place in it, and I want to have it fixed before ma notices it." "Ah, what a considerate little boy! I suppose you are afraid the tack might hurt your mother's .foot?" "Well, it isn't exactly that. You see, the tack is sticking out on the sole, and this is the slipper ma 6panks me with."?Chicago News. Prepared For the Worst. Aunt Matilda, who was favored with a visit from her favorite nephew, told the youngster to soak his feet in a tub of salt water if he wanted to toughen them. She knew he loved to go barefoot. He soaked his hands too. Then, after thinking about it for a few moments, he said to himself: "It's pretty near time for me to get a licking. Tomorrow I'm going to eit in it."?Ladies' Home Journal. NOTES OF ANIMALS. . The Theory of One Writer About the Origin of Music. i Music did not have its birth j "when Jubal struck the corded | shell," as ignorant humanity has ( been led to suppose. Music originated in the cry of 1 , the peacock, the bleat of the goat j and the croak of the frog. Accord- j ing to an interesting article on the j i relationship between music and [ emotion, which appears in the An- I nals of Psychical Science, Dr. Henry Fotherby, the writer, also sug| gests that the appreciation of timn | and rhythm in music may be due t > the rhythmic shock of the heart'- I beat on the circulation. , The nerves, he says, may play an i important part in the appreciation of musical sounds, and he points ! out the connection between the nerves and music by the tendency 1 I to express music when heard by j movements of the head and arms : and sometimes by the trunk and legs. I Dr. Fotherby gives a feasible j reason for the fact that the lower ! j notes of the scale have always been j : employed to describe anger, fear1 and reverence, while the treble notes have been associated with sunshine, light heartedness, sociability and love. The lower notes associate themselves with the growls of wild beasts, the moan of the wind in the forest, the roar of thunder. The upper notes imitate the songs of birds, the chirp of the ( grasshopper, the hum of insect life. "The Hindoo note Sa, corresponding with our C," says Dr. Fothjjrhv. the note of the peacock: D, wasjthe note of the It jin o^^These were iilwflvs a icd m wonder and terror. "Ga, or E, , a, or F, were the erics of the goft and the crane respectively and were associated with compassion and love. "Xi, or B, Dhn, or A, were the notes of the elephant and the frog, the former associated with compassion and the latter with disgust or alarm/' . Aunt Hepz. ?h'j Explanation. Aunt Ilepzibah was usually a careful housewife, and things seldom went wrong under her management, but one evening she left tl\e lid off the big canister in which she kept her best oolong tea, and a half grown cat crept inside of it and slept on the fragrant contents. Aunt Jlepzibah's horror on discovering it the next morning was 'heightened bv the fact that she was entertaining a friend who was particularly fond of tea and always used it for breakfast. The nearest grocery store was half a mile awav, and nothing could be done to repair the mischief. "I'm awfully sorry, Mrs. Wyckoff." she said to her guest at breakfast time, "but something happened to my oolong last night, and I've nothing to offer you to take its place but?cat-nap tea. You'd rather have coffee than that, I'm sure." The guest preferred the coffee, and the story never leaked out until Aunt Hepzibah told it herself.? Youth's Companion. 8acrod Geeto of Romo. The tradition of the "sacred geese of old Borne" is that when the Gauls invaded Home a detachment, in single file, climbed up the hill of the capital so silently that the foremost man reached the top without being challenged. But ? ' ? -!- i; it. Willie ne was Binning over uie ruiapart 6ome sacrec. geese, disturbed by the noise, began to cackle and thus awoke the garrison. Marcus Manlius rushed to the wall and hurled the fellow over the precipice. To commemorate the event the Romans carried a golden goose in procession to the capitol every year.?New York American. Har Newspaper Acquaintance. Among the guests at a fashionable New York reception was a recently appointed young editor of one of the dailies, who thought extremely well of himself. He received an introduction to the thirj teen-year-old daughter of his host1 ess. "And how do you like newspaper men?" he asked the little maid in | a most condescending tone of voice. I "I don't know." she replied art lessly. "The only one I know is the man who brings our paper every morning."?Lippincottfs. New York the American Venice. It is a surprising thing to know that New York city, although not known as the American Venice, contains more islands than any city but Venice, for within its boundaries are thirty-one separate and distinct islands, most of which, encircled bv deep water, will afford unlimited shipping accommodations and dockage for the commerce of future years to reach undreamed of proportions, judging from past and present growth. ? National Magazine. I .# .... Morphel: and Si Under the Magie,Mir 5CH00LAI I Monday 1 Octol This is one of the highest i platform. Four members to th< - Tickets on sale at! Those holding' season ticl wish to select their seats for tt E L Montgomery at the Bank o 1 ber 6th. S To The / [|j I have loug ^0 V J L Stuckey's Bi jf Wagon business, ^ ii and will be pie; V customers and t j) ^ ly in these lines |T I I also have t Sets of Harness ^ prices. 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